On Tuesday night, the Liberal Unionist Club, with the Warden
of Merton (the Hon. George Brodrick) in the chair, entertained Lord Derby at Willis's Rooms. Mr. Brodrick, in proposing the toast of the evening, said that the Home-rulers, when they argued for Home-rule on the ground that the reme- dial policy had failed in Ireland,—they themselves having taken the most elaborate care that it should fail,—reminded him of the man who, after having murdered both his father and his mother, went about begging for alms on the ground that he was an orphan. He need not have been an orphan, had he not so willed it; and the remedial policy for Ireland would not have failed, had not the Home-rulers resolved that fail it should. If Mr. Parnell had proved anything, it was that he could not control either his own followers or his American allies, and had hardly even made the attempt. And that being
assumed, what could be more absurd than to advocate plans of statutory Home-rule which depended for their safety entirely upon Mr. Parnell's power to control his followers and allies, when it was obvious that he bad no such power, and that statutory Home-rule would, therefore, be quickly converted into Separation and anarchy?
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